Disney alum Christy Carlson Romano is speaking out in the wake of the viral drama surrounding some of her fellow famous moms, throwing in her two cents after Ashley Tisdale appeared to call out some of their mutual contacts in a recent essay about leaving her “toxic” mom group.
The Kim Possible star shared a selfie-style video on TikTok, noting that “mom groups are really important to people when they first have their baby…to help you get through postpartum hormones and stuff like that.” She likened the community to Mommy and Me classes, calling them “really great.”
But, sometimes, when your kids get older, you might “end up cycling out of those friendships,” especially “if the kids don’t get along.”
“That kind of sucks, but, in the end, if you can make time for the people that matter to you, they should be giving back to you as much as you’re putting out,” she continued. “And if that dynamic shifts, then just go find another group of friends. It’s very simple. It’s not supposed to be dramatic.”
She seemed sympathetic, though, adding, “but I get it,” before quipping, “Sometimes it gets a little crazy and then you write an article about it.”
Tisdale Compared Her Mom Group to High School
In her article for The Cut, Tisdale, a mother of two young girls, described a post-pandemic craving for community that led her to find a group of other moms that, at first, seemed like the perfect “village” for her and her girls. She described eventually feeling “frozen out” of the group, though, discovering she’d been left off the invite list through Instagram Stories. The actions were compared to high school, and the internet’s response was mixed, as some could relate to her plight and others felt it was a little too high school to “passive aggressively writ[e] about your hurt feelings for them to read elsewhere.”
Fans Think They Identified Some of the Moms in Question
While Tisdale never named her fellow moms directly, fans dug up a photo that featured Mandy Moore, her fellow Disney colleague Hilary Duff, and Meghan Trainor.
Tisdale’s representative claimed the piece was not about Duff or the other celebrity moms speculated to be in the group, but Duff’s husband appeared to clap back not long after the article went viral, posting an apparent recreation of her magazine cover to his Instagram Story.
Matthew Koma shared a photo of himself posing similarly to Tisdale, with a fake headline reading, “When You’re The Most Self Obsessed Tone Deaf Person on Earth, Other Moms Tend To Shift Focus To Their Actual Toddlers.”
“Read my new interview with @thecut,” he added.
It’s not the first time he’s “showed everyone how great husbands stick up for their wives,” once directly responding to a so-called fan who was criticizing her physical appearance.
Then, after fans predicted that “Meghan will release a cringey diss track about Ashley in the near future,” Trainor posted a TikTok video set to her latest single, “Still Don’t Care.”
“me finding out about the apparent mom group drama,” she wrote over the clip, which showed her casually clicking away at her keyboard in front of her computer, which some said only proved Tisdale’s point.
Fans could sympathize with the hurt Tisdale was feeling, but pointed out that “sometimes things don’t work out and that’s fine. that’s LIFE😏.”
“I have cycled in and out of different mom groups over my 25 years of parenting and it’s so important to remember that some mom friends are just friends for a season and some are for longer,” another commented. “part of the journey is knowing when to grow beyond and find a new group.”
This story was originally published by Parade on Jan 9, 2026, where it first appeared in the News section. Add Parade as a Preferred Source by clicking here.
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